Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Conference Roommate Finding Forum

The hope is that this will help students (and others) to find roommates to share hotel rooms with at conferences, thus decreasing cost and increasing the possibility of attendance. Ideally, I think this is something that should be hosted by CRA or ACM, but until they take over, it seems better to have something than nothing. Similarly, I don't intend this to be limited to theoretical computer science.

3 comments:

Indeed, great idea. SIAM does this for SODA, but as I recall it's done manually so they aren't likely to open it to non-SIAM conferences. SIAM might be easy to convince to host a bulletin board like this since they're already used to the idea of roommate finding.